Entry on Descartes from the Encyclopedia. Includes an assessment of his philosophy. ... In the preface to the French edition of the Principles of Philosophy, Descartes uses a tree as a metaphor for his holistic view of philosophy.
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Martial Gueroult, Descartes' Philosophy Interpreted according to the Order of Reasons, tr. by Roger Ariew [in two volumes] (Minnesota, 1984) ... Descartes' Natural Philosophy, ed. by Stephen Gaukroger and John Schuster (Routledge, 2000) {Order from Amazon.com}
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Descartes: God and Human Nature ... The answer lies in Descartes's theory of ideas. Considered formally, as the content of my thinking activity, the ideas involved in the cogito are unusually clear and distinct. (Med. III) But ideas may also be considered objectively, as the mental representatives ... History of Philosophy...
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This is the point which distinguishes the classic realistic philosophy from Cartesian and modern philosophy. With Descartes, philosophy ceases to be the science of being, and becomes the science of thought (epistemology).
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Article by Lex Newman from the Stanford Encyclopedi ... René Descartes (1596-1650) is widely regarded as the father of modern philosophy. His noteworthy contributions extend to mathematics and physics. This entry focuses on his philosophical contributions in the theory of knowledge.
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The pineal gland is a tiny organ in the center of the brain that played an important role in Descartes' philosophy. He regarded it as the principal seat of the soul and the place in which all our thoughts are formed.
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Rene Descartes - Papers & essays analyzing his Meditations and other philosophies ... In his book Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes presents the concept of an "evil demon," as powerful as God but deceptive, as an explanation for why his senses sometimes gave him unreliable information about the nature...
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In February of 1650, returning in the bitter cold from a session with Queen Christina, who insisted on receiving her instruction at 5 a.m., Descartes contracted pneumonia. Within a week, the man who had given direction to much of later philosophy was dead.
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